Teacher gives students a list of 30 slang words and phrases they cant use,is it anti black?

[Yas]

Yall don't remember popular words or phrases from TV/movies and people using it in real life? It's the same concept as a kid sometimes you steal your entire personality from well liked things aka memes and viral videos.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

They're going to have a tough time communicating I think that list includes 85% of all words they know in the English language

But seriously though I'm tired of these jittabugs using over using slang like they speak in real life exactly how the type on social media shyt is annoying maybe I'm just getting old

People really co-signed this bullshyt?

 

[HiphopRelated]

Lol at the idea of telling a teacher "on my dead homie"

The world really gonna be different going forward

 

[KingSol81]

I don't like the way she calls it gibberish. That to me, makes them seem old to them kids or if she's white, a racist. On the other hand, I know kids at my school who have no idea how to code switch. They will use text acronyms in a formal paper like it's nothing. And I have to explain what the difference is between formal language and the language you use in texting. Yeah, that's common sense to us, but for some of them it's new.

This teacher needs to affirm the so called "gibberish" (I mean you're an English teacher and should appreciate language. Especially with the screwed up the English language is with its weird rules). And at the same time teach them about code switching which they will need in life.

Yeah this pretty much. She's avoiding a teachable moment or beneficial language exercise because of what appears to be an unwillingness of her herself learning new language.

 

[DonB90]

People really co-signed this bullshyt?

I went to public school with 15 year olds that were illiterate. That was almost 20 years ago.

Take your crybaby liberal suburban private school ass off my post

Nice try though

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

White kids use those words just as much as black kids though OP.

Exactly.

None of those are exclusive to Black kids.​

 

[Diyhai]

Lol at the idea of telling a teacher "on my dead homie"

The world really gonna be different going forward

And nyggas in here really cosigning this stupidity
let them express themselves teacher is a professional not a friend

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

No it doesn’t, being professional is not code switching
code switching is cultural
unless you thinking being professional and academic is “acting white”

No, you're wrong.

Using academic or professional language is, in fact, code switching.

Code switching is not tied to a white-black axis and merely refers to any time that you have to switch up your dialect or vocabulary, whatever that dialect or vocabulary may be, for a different audience.

 

[KingSol81]

I generally wouldn't have a problem with this but the justification has to be meaningful.

The explanation the teacher gives is that there is a correlation to slang use and being a good writer and I just don't buy that. Many good contemporary writers have written great books using the popular slang of their times.

Additionally, much of the slang listed are verbal expressions. Not exactly the type of things that are useful in writing outside of informal communication like text messaging.

If the justification was simply to encourage the expansion of vocabulary, I wouldn't have a problem with it.

But I don't necessarily see the correlation between good writing and slang use as an inhibitor so it does come off as a bit anti-black.

Yeah that was absolutely a bullshyt correlation, Shakespeare writings is full of slang of that day. A good bulk of the books that are regarded as the "classics" they teach in school are full of slang of that day. I wonder if she'll keep the same energy with the poets I'm sure she teaches about, or Mark Twayne?

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

I went to public school with 15 year olds that were illiterate. That was almost 20 years ago.

Take your crybaby liberal suburban private school ass off my post

Nice try though

That's obviously not what was implied in that post, you racist idiot. You got a history of saying racist shyt on here. That was just more of who you really are slipping out.

And Detroit public schools weren't private, let alone in the suburbs, you doofus.

 

[African Peasant]

That teacher is right.

If you hate this, you anti black.

Do y'all want teaches to help raise your kids or not? When the video of the little kids came out rapping the lyrics to sexy red y'all got mad at the teacher. Teachers can't win with some of y'all

A lot of people here worship street cats and hate any kind of etiquette or discipline.

A lot of them were defending the women twerking on table in a restaurant

 

[Diyhai]

No, you're wrong.

Using academic or professional language is, in fact, code switching.

Code switching is not tied to a white-black axis and merely refers to any time that you have to switch up your dialect or vocabulary for a different audience.

being professional is a a standard for everyone
that is the point of it
something everyone can understand and is universal
what you do outside of that is the code switching whether your Latina Korean Japanese Ghanaian
speaking standard English is not code switching
speaking non standard language to different specific groups and cultures is the code switching

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

being professional is a a standard for everyone
that is the point of it
something everyone can understand and is universal
what you do outside of that is the code switching whether your Latina Korean Japanese Ghanaian
speaking standard English is not code switching
speaking non standard language to different specific groups and cultures is the code switching

You don't know what you're talking about, respectfully. I have a background in linguistics. You are wrong about your definition of code-switching.

Code-switching | Linguistic Benefits & Challenges

Code-switching, process of shifting from one linguistic code (a language or dialect) to another, depending on the social context or conversational setting. Sociolinguists, social psychologists, and identity researchers are interested in the ways in which code-switching, particularly by members of

www.britannica.com

It doesn't matter which dialects or vocabularies you are switching between; switching between any two to fit in, whether standardized or non-standard, equates to code switching.

 

[NobodyReally]

There's a whole field on this in English. What a dumb teacher.

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[Diyhai]

You don't know what you're talking about, respectfully. I have a background in linguistics. You are wrong about your definition of code-switching.

Code-switching | Linguistic Benefits & Challenges

Code-switching, process of shifting from one linguistic code (a language or dialect) to another, depending on the social context or conversational setting. Sociolinguists, social psychologists, and identity researchers are interested in the ways in which code-switching, particularly by members of

www.britannica.com

It doesn't matter which dialects or vocabularies you are switching between; switching between any two to fit in, whether standardized or non-standard, equates to code switching.

Code-switching - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org